Who’s Ready for Mail Next?
Thu, Nov 13th 2014 3:45p Chris RecklingI hope YOU will be ready to tune in next week, 18 November, for the Mail Next "New Way to Work" event. Register here to either attend in person or stream it. Several of my design colleagues and I will be there on site to show off our work on both mobile and web. I hope to see you there! Like most projects at IBM these days, we are using IBM Design Thinking practices to ensure we deliver the best experience for our users. That means understanding their goals, needs, and pain points through

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Sametime A/V in the Cloud
Tue, Oct 21st 2014 3:25p Chris RecklingSametime Chat in the cloud now supports video on the iPad and audio on the iPhone! I called product manager, Marc Pagnier today - I think he was logged in from the web client actually. Now you can log into SmartCloud directly with your user name/password and have access to audio and video. Here's my live screenshot from today. Picture quality gets adjusted based on bandwidth. Enjoy! Chris

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Connections Mobile Tip of the Day
Fri, Oct 17th 2014 3:45p Chris RecklingHere's something you may have missed in the little introductory pop-ups when you first log in to the Connections mobile app. We have a new feature, called Favorites, that let's you, the user, add a link to almost anything in the app to the left navigation. This let's you quickly get back to a community, file, forum, or person that you frequently open on mobile. Rather than navigate to a list of Communities and then scrolling to the one you want, make it a Favorite. Here's the trick (yes,

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What? New Companion and To Do Apps? YES.
Fri, May 9th 2014 2:25p Chris RecklingI told you more apps were coming, updated for iOS 7! Today IBM released Traveler Companion and Traveler To Do's to the Apple app store. These were updated to align with new guidelines for iOS 7 (featuring a beautiful new design) and a handful of bug fixes, as reported by customers. Traveler Companion is available so you can read and send encrypted mail on the device (since we cannot build this into the Apple mail client). It also enforces certain admin policies such as how attachments are ha

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Sametime Meetings app for iOS Updated
Mon, Apr 21st 2014 3:25p Chris RecklingToday IBM released an update to the Sametime Meetings app. This release updates the UI to be more in line with iOS 7 guidelines. Check it out. When we started this process, we decided to go for a lighter, friendlier tone than before. Here is what the main entrance screen looks like now - what we call the 'lobby'. From here you can launch straight into your meeting room. And once you are in a room, you can focus on the content at hand for the meeting. This screen shot shows the slide vi